Safety apparatus for filling mineral-water bottles.



E. SCHUTZE. SAFETY APPARATUS FOR FILLING MINERAL WATER BOTTLES.

(Application filed Dec. 28', 1897.)

Patented June 26, [900.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES Parana @rrioa.

ERNST soI-IU ZE, or BERLIN, GERMANY.

SAFETY APPARATUS FOR FILLING MINERAL WATER BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 652,33 5, dated June 26, 1900. Application filed December 28,1897. Serial No. 668,855. (No model.)

To (1Z6 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNST SOHU'TZE, a citizen of the German Empire, residingin Berlin, in theKingdom'of Prussia and Empire of Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Apparatus for Filling Mineral-Water Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and improved safety device for filling mineral-water bottles, which frequently burst while being filled with the effervescent liquid, and has for its object to provide means for entirely pre* venting the flying about of the splinters and pieces of glass when a bottle bursts.

The invention consists of a safety device for filling mineral-water bottles comprisinga suitably-supported standard, a plate carried by said standard, a protective screen consisting of two spring-actuated bottle-inclosing semiscctions hinged together, means for supporting said screen relatively to said plate, and a treadle mechanism for operati g imultaneously said standard and protective screen.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the device in closed position. Fig. 2 is a plan View, on a larger scale, of the device in opened position; and Fig. 3 is a plan view, also on a scale larger than Fig. 1, of the device in closed position.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, a indicates the footpiece of my improved device, and b a guide-standard rising from the footpiece and serving to support a vertically movable standard d, which carries at its upper end a plate c,adapted to support a bottle to be filled. The protective screen for inclosing the bottle when being filled is made of fine wire-netting or other suitable material and is composed of two semisections 'i 2', which are hinged together at their rear edges at h and supported above the plate oby arms q q, one of which is hinged at 1", said arms extending from a support g, attached to the standard d. The semiscctions of the protective screen are strengthened by stays It and connected by a spring Z, which is placed under tension when the semiscctions are closed, as shown in Fig. 3, and which serves for opening the semiscc- Patenttions when they are released. A treadle mechanism is employed for operating the standard cl and protective screen, said mechanism comprising a treadle f, pivoted at e to the footpiece and engaging the standard d, and a chain 19, connected at one end by a spring 3 with the treadle and extending over a roller n, pivoted to a bracket m of the sup port g, and connected at the other end by rings 0 with each semisection of the screen.

\Vhen a bottle is placed upon the plate 6 and the treadle depressed, the standard 'd is raised and the semiscctions simultaneously closed about the bottle in the position shown in Fig. 3. IVhen the treadle is released, the standard d and parts carried by it descend and the semiscctions are opened automatically by the spring 1, so that the bottle may be removed. When, as frequently happens, owing to the great pressure of the gas contained in the liquid, a bottle bursts while inclosed in the screen, the flying about of the splinters and pieces of glass is entirely prevented by the screen, and the broken bottle is confined within the screen, so that on opening the screen all the broken glass can be removed without inconvenience.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters A safety device for filling mineral-water bottles, consisting of a suitably-supported A standard, atreadle for raising and lowering the same, a plate carried by said standard, a support extending from said standard, a pulley carried by said support, arms one of which 4 is hinged extending from said support, a protective screen supported over said table by said arms, said screen consisting of springactuated bottle-inclosing semiscctions hinged together at their rear edges, and an operating-chain passing over said pulley and connected at one end with each of said semiscctions and at its opposite end with said treadle, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in pres+ enoe of two subscribing witnesses. H

ERNST SOHUTZE.

Witnesses:

PAUL FALBER, EUGEN SEIFERT. 

